I'm a shanghainese and live in Shanghai now.
You know it is very difficult to describe something or somebody with any other foreign languages which the meaning is as same as original.
Shanghainese belongs to wu language and a little bit different from Mandarin including words, grammer, pronunciation and so on if you know mandarin and Shanghainese.
Probably punk means 小阿飞
ruffian means 流氓
tough girl means za ba

billxiao wrote:I'm a shanghainese and live in Shanghai now.You know it is very difficult to describe something or somebody with any other foreign languages which the meaning is as same as original. Shanghainese belongs to wu language and a little bit different from Mandarin including words, grammer, pronunciation and so on if you know mandarin and Shanghainese.Probably punk means 小阿飞ruffian means 流氓tough girl means za ba

Hello billxiao-thank you for your responses and your help.

I've seen the term "awu" used in Shanghai dialect which means "good-for-nothing".
I've seen the term "硬骨头 （ying4gu3tou2)" used,which means "tough guy"-is this a Shanghainese term?

Are there any Shanghinese slang terms for a "tomboy", or a "female that likes to do "guy" things", or "masculine female"?